May 2010
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Table of Contents
P resident ’ s M essage
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Some Words of Congratulations and Thanks
Some Words of Congratulations and Thanks . . 1
PAST PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Food for Thought for the Annual Meeting . . . . 3
PRESIDENT-ELECT’S MESSAGE
Looking Forward to the Transition . . . . . . . . 4
New AAKPE Officers, Fellows, and
Hetherington Award Winner . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2010 AAKPE MEETING
Plans for Annual Meeting Announced . . . . . . 5
AAKPE NEWS
AAKPE Evaluation of Doctoral
Programs is Underway . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
New Prominent Leader Interview with
Roberta Park Now Available . . . . . . . . . . 7
America’s National Physical Activity Plan
Unveiled in DC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Member News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Executive Board 2009-2010 . . . . . . . . . . 10
By Roberta Rikli, California State University, Fullerton
T
his has been an exciting
year for the Academy
as officers and committee
members have been working hard to find ways of
better serving our members,
the field, and the public. At
the top of this list is Past
President Bev Ulrich and
Roberta Rikli
her Program Committee,
who are planning an exciting fall conference on
the theme of “Bridging Kinesiology and Society.”
The program will feature a number of notable
speakers from both within and outside of our field
and promises to stimulate much discussion and
debate on important issues. I know you won’t
want to miss this conference on October 7-9,
2010, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Additional details
can be found in the Past President’s Message
and elsewhere in the newsletter.
Thanks to the excellent work of President-Elect Mo Weiss and her Nominations
Committee, we had an exceptional slate of
nominees for Academy officers for next year.
Our sincere appreciation to all who agreed to
run for office and hearty congratulations to those
who were elected: Patty Freedson as presidentelect, Debbie Rose as secretary-treasurer, and
Jeff McCubbin as member-at-large. Similarly,
the Membership Committee, chaired by Judy
Rink, has provided us with an impressive list of
new members for our induction as fellows at the
Fall Conference. See page 4 for a list of future
inductees. Please join me in congratulating these
new members. In addition, we are thrilled with
the outcome of the Awards Committee, chaired
by Amelia Lee, which has selected Dr. Jack
Wilmore (Fellow #252) to receive the prestigious
Clark W. Hetherington Award, the highest honor
that the Academy bestows on its members. As
is customary, after being presented with this
award at the AAKPE conference banquet, Jack
will give the banquet address. We look forward
to honoring Jack for his many contributions to
the field and to the Academy.
Another increasingly important AAKPE-sponsored activity is the five-year formal review of
doctoral programs in kinesiology, with the second
round of these evaluations currently underway.
With university programs throughout the country
being ever more closely scrutinized for their quality and relevance, AAKPE’s doctoral evaluation
process seems all the more timely and valuable
as a tool in providing background data to support program strengths and/or areas needing
improvement. I know that Committee Chair Waneen
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Some Words of Congratulations and Thanks
Spirduso and her committee worked extra hard
this year to improve the process and to gain a
higher response rate for program involvement.
See the Doctoral Evaluation Committee report
on page 6 for additional details.
Also deserving of special recognition this
year is David Wiggins, AAKPE historian, who
completed personal “living history” interviews
with two distinguished leaders in our field—
Roberta Park and Rainer Martens. These interviews—along with those of former interviewees
Franklin Henry, Walter Fraleigh, John Lucas, and
Earle Zeigler—can be listened to by visiting the
AAKPE Web site at www.aakpe.org. Our thanks
to all involved—to David, to Roberta and Rainer,
and to Human Kinetics—for their contributions
to this important historical database featuring
outstanding leaders in kinesiology.
In addition to carrying out the routine business
of the Academy, this year’s Executive Committee
has taken on a number of other tasks, partially in
response to growing concerns about whether it
might be time to re-evaluate or reconfirm (whatever
the case may be) the mission of the Academy and
perhaps some of its long-standing approaches
to certain operations, including the structure of
annual conferences. One of the Executive Committee’s first tasks was to conduct an electronic
survey where member feedback was solicited
on a number of items including recommendations for future conference themes, for possible
changes in program structure, and for additional
Academy projects. Respondents to the survey
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(representing a 40% return rate) provided some
fairly clear suggestions in several categories,
with the main ones being:
•• Increased participation in conference
programs, such as more opportunity for
audience discussion, inclusion of more
members on the program as reactors,
panel members, and so on;
•• Greater focus on kinesiology’s relevance to
important social issues and improving
kinesiology’s visibility in society/academia;
•• Greater focus on dissemination of knowledge/ideas to the rest of the field and to
the public: Academy should be having a
stronger voice and should publish position
papers.
•• Discussions on the sustainability and future
of kinesiology, re-analysis of successful and
failed programs/departments, centrality to
university mission;
•• Increased focus on translational research,
theory into practice, implementation of
information; and
•• More substantive conference program (less
free time on Friday afternoon).
Also new this year was the appointment of a
Future Directions Committee, chaired by Debbie
Rose, through which discussions to date have
focused on three major points: 1) ways of raising
the visibility and influence of AAKPE, 2) exploring
ways that AAKPE and AKA (American Kinesiology
Association) might collaborate in some formal
relationship to further advance the field, and
3) possible changes in the nature and format
of annual AAKPE meetings. The Committee’s
mid-year report suggests that members have
been actively engaged in a rich dialogue about
these and other issues. We look forward to the
full report and recommendations at the Academy
Business Meeting during the Fall Conference.
Once again, my heartiest congratulations
to our new officers and especially to our newly
elected fellows. Mark your calendars now for
AAKPE’s Fall Conference, October 7-9, 2010, in
Williamsburg, Virginia. You won’t want to miss it.
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P ast P resident ’ s M essage
Food for Thought for the Annual Meeting
By Bev Ulrich, University of Michigan
T
hree years ago, prior
to giving the Raymond
Weiss lecture at AAHPERD, I
had the privilege of speaking
with Dr. Weiss. We discussed
one of the career milestones
we had in common, that of
having been president of
the AAKPE. I asked him
Bev Ulrich
what he enjoyed most about
the Academy meetings in his day and he said
the rigorous debates about important issues of
our day that were the mainstay of the meetings.
I was surprised and inspired by his response,
perhaps because I love to debate (or some would
say, argue) but also because I did not know this
was core to what our programs used to look
like. Fundamental to Dr. Weiss’s enthusiasm and
mine for debate is our shared belief that when
conducted in a respectful and constructively
critical manner, dialogue among a diverse group
of experts can lead to more powerful solutions
to important issues than efforts that are more
narrowly focused. What better group than our
leaders in the Academy to pool collective wisdom
and take on important societal issues? And what
fun! This is what I hope our meeting will be this
year, full of shared expertise and data, focused
on a subset of important topics, with plenty of
time for members as well as invited speakers to
be heard and to converse. Ultimately, we hope
the essence of these discussions can be distilled
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“We hope the essence of
these discussions can be
distilled into the first of a
series of Academy perspective or position papers.”
into the first of a series of Academy perspective
or position papers.
The title for this year’s meeting is “Bridging Kinesiology and Society.” I invited an
interdisciplinary group of members to form a
conference committee with me: Barb Ainsworth,
Patty Freedson, Bob Gregor, Jan Harris, Karl
Newell, Mary O’Sullivan, Greg Reid, Maureen
Weiss, and Dave Wiggins. We worked together
on the goal of identifying important societal issues
for which our kinesiology research and scholarship can contribute uniquely to solutions. We
considered many options but settled on just two
in order to allow sufficient breadth and depth of
presentations and discussions before culling key
points that might form the basis for position or
perspective papers on behalf of the Academy.
The issues we selected are: “PE: Education/Skill
and/or Health/Fitness” and “Multicultural Issues
in Physical Activity and Health.” Subcommittees
were formed to work on identifying speakers and
formats for individual sessions. The PE Subcom-
mittee consists of Cathy Ennis, Karl Newell, Mary
O’Sullivan, Russ Pate, and me. The Multiculturalism
Subcommittee, chaired by Jan Harris, includes
Greg Reid, Maureen Weiss, and Dave Wiggins.
Our formats will include lots of variety and interdisciplinarity, including emphasis on stakeholders
in these issues. And, of course, significant blocks
of time are set aside for member participation in
discussion (debate, perhaps?), following speakers’ presentations. More specifics can be found
on page 5, where details of the Annual Meeting
are shared.
Request for volunteers: Here is your chance
to engage in the process of moving our visibility
forward. One way of having greater impact and
being more visible is to create meaningful position
or perspective papers and then disseminating
these in substantive venues. We have not done
this before and to do so may be enhanced by
developing a set of guidelines for this process.
It will set the stage for some consistency and
transparency as we move forward. I would like to
form a working group to develop these guidelines
that would meet on Friday afternoon during the
conference. Members who have experience with
this task in other organizations would be particularly valuable contributors, but also folks willing to
collect position statement examples from other
organizations with some relevance to our field
would be real assets. The action I would like to
come out of the Friday session would be a draft
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Looking Forward to the Transition
By Maureen Weiss, University of Minnesota
O
ne of my responsibilities was to chair the
committee on nominations
and election of officers. I
want to thank my committee
members—Emily Haymes,
Jane Kent-Braun, Li Li Ji,
and Jeff McCubbin—for
generating and selecting
Maureen Weiss
outstanding nominees for
three positions. The final slate of candidates
running for office included Patty Freedson and
Toby Tate for president-elect, Debbie Rose and
Melinda Solmon for secretary-treasurer, and Jeff
McCubbin and Li Li Ji for member-at-large. Many
thanks to all these individuals for being willing
to run for office and serve the organization.
After an online voting process, Patty Freedson,
Debbie Rose, and Jeff McCubbin were elected
to their respective offices.
I am looking forward to our annual conference
in historic Williamsburg in October and hope to
see all of you there. Bev Ulrich has planned an
exceptionally strong and socially relevant program
on bridging kinesiology and society. We are looking
forward to having Academy members participate
in thoughtful discussions about the topics and
dialogue about potential position papers. Some
of the presentation formats will be different than
in previous years and, as a future conference program chair, I am very interested in your response
to these alternative modes of presenting material.
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Please send me your ideas about organizational activities, initiatives, conference themes,
and any other issues regarding the future of
AAKPE. I look forward to transitioning into the
president’s role at the end of the Williamsburg conference, and I welcome ideas and
suggestions for sustaining the strength of our
organization and the field of kinesiology. Thank you
all for your continuing support and the momentum
we have generated with pushing the boundaries of knowledge forward on kinesiology’s
contributions to the health and well-being of
individuals across the lifespan.
I look forward to working with and for you in
the next two years and will continue to do my
very best to represent your interests and sustain
the tradition of a strong academic society.
“Please send me your ideas
about organizational
activities, initiatives, conference themes, and any
other issues regarding the
future of AAKPE.”
New AAKPE Officers, Fellows, and
Hetherington Award Winner
New Officers:
President-Elect: Patty Freedson
Secretary-Treasurer: Debra Rose
Member-at-Large: Jeff McCubbin
New Fellows:
David Bassett Jr. (University of Tennessee)
Ang Chen (University of North Carolina at
Greensboro)
Anthony Hackney (University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Juergen Konczak (University of Minnesota)
Jeff Martin (Wayne State University)
Jayne Souza (Penn State University)
Brad Strand (North Dakota State University)
Dixie Thompson ( University of Tennessee)
International Fellows:
Wendy Frisby (University of British Columbia)
David Gabriel (Brock University)
2010 Hetherington Award Winner:
Jack Wilmore
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2010 AAKPE M eeting
Plans for Annual Meeting Announced
By Bev Ulrich and Amy Rose
T
his year’s annual meeting will have historic
significance not only in what is accomplished
by our members but in the beautiful location that
has been selected. The AAKPE would like you
to be a part of history on Thursday, October 7,
through Saturday, October 9, 2010.
The Colonial Williamsburg Lodge is located
within the Colonial Williamsburg resort collection.
The Lodge has been newly renovated with all the
comfort and convenience desired by conference
attendees, including Wi-Fi in all guest rooms and
certain public and prefunction areas. Decorative
elements of classic American style give character
and charm to this unique hotel.
The Lodge has ten on-site restaurants, including
four historic dining taverns. It is located adjacent to
the Spa of Colonial Williamsburg and the Golden
Horseshoe golf course. The grounds also include
two outdoor pools, one indoor pool, eight tennis
courts, lawn croquet, and lawn bowling for guests.
Room reservations will be $199 a night for
single or double occupancy. These special rates
will apply three days before and after the dates of
the group’s conference for those wanting to add
an extra day or two of relaxation. The deadline for
reservations at this rate will be Friday, August 20.
Reservations can be made by calling 800-261-9530
or by the online PASSKEY system. More information will be sent out in the conference packets.
During free time, members are encouraged
to explore the Historic Area, where costumed
interpreters lead guests through 18th-century
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Spread the word, plan to
attend, and invite your
friends and colleagues to
join us!
homes and businesses, providing a unique way
to explore our country’s beginnings.
An exciting program is planned for this year’s
meeting, one that we hope will attract members
and nonmembers alike. Please spread the word
that anyone can register for and attend all sessions (except the Business Meeting). We believe
the content will be of interest to kinesiology faculty
members and professionals as well as to people
in overlapping areas related to our subthemes this
year. Spread the word, plan to attend, and invite
your friends and colleagues to join us!
The theme for our 2010 conference is “Bridging
Kinesiology and Society.” Our goal is to highlight
ways in which kinesiology research and scholarship
contribute to solving important societal problems.
And we will work toward ways to communicate
this knowledge to stakeholders in society. The
opening session on Thursday evening will feature
a keynote address by Dr. Yvonne Maddox, who
is the deputy director of the NICHD and co-chair
of the NIH’s Public Trust Initiative.
For each of our conference days we will focus
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AAKPE Evaluation of Doctoral Programs is Underway
By Waneen Spirduso, University of Texas at Austin
T
he second round of the AAKPE evaluations of
doctoral programs in kinesiology is underway.
The first round was a pilot study used to establish the procedures for the conducting of these
evaluations. The second round included data
from 2000 to 2004. The present evaluation is of
graduate activity from 2005 to 2009. Letters of
invitation to participate, with a list of participating benefits, were distributed to all departments
with doctoral granting degrees in November. The
letters were sent to the administrative head of the
unit, usually departmental chairs, and the dean
of the graduate schools. Reminder letters were
sent in December 2009 to those schools that had
not yet returned their intent-to-participate letter.
Instructional materials for completing the forms
and data Excel spreadsheets were sent out in
February 2010, with a second reminder letter to
those not participating in early February 2010.
Thirty-seven schools are participating in this
round of evaluations, which is a 16% increase
over the 2000-2004 evaluation period. Twentyfive institutions participated in both rounds of
evaluation. All but seven of the participating
institutions have an AAKPE member either in their
department or serving as chair of the department.
The deadline for submitting the data was
March 12, 2010. The data will be analyzed March
through July, the technical report will be written
in August, and the chairs and deans will receive
the results of the program evaluation in early
September 2010. The results will be placed on
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the AAKPE Web site in mid-September 2010.
Changes in the Form. The Academy approved
substantive changes in the 2009 Business Meeting:
Only the publications by corresponding authors
of scholarly papers will be recorded, representing
the total publications from the department, and
only this variable will be used in the analysis to
determine rankings. The impact of this change is
that we will not have inflated numbers of papers
reported as publications from departments because
each of four or five authors reported the same paper.
Faculty who are co-authors in multiple authorship papers are recording theirs in the column
for co-authors, and these will be analyzed using
a few different models to see if this variable
emerges as a contributing factor to the total
variance. The analyses will be discussed by
the Doctoral Evaluation Committee, and if the
committee determines that the outcome of one
of these models adds to the integrity and usefulness of the evaluation, it will recommend to the
Academy next fall its inclusion in the 2010-2014
evaluation.
The second substantive change was in counting external funding for grants. In the previous
2000-2004 round, faculty reported the full amount
of the grant that was awarded. The change for
this round is that only grant fund expenditures
that are processed through the departmental
budget are recorded. The impact of this change
is that grant amounts that are reported are indeed
funds that were available to the department, and
were not housed in some other department on
campus. For example, it prevents departments
from reporting the full amount of a $2 million
grant as available resources for their department, when in fact the department might only
have had access to funds from a subcontract
of the grant that was actually substantially less
(e.g., $30,000).
Opportunity: Any faculty member or chair
of a department who has completed the doctoral evaluation forms or participated in the
process and has suggestions for improvement
or comments, please send those to Dr. Waneen
Spirduso, Chair of the AAKPE Doctoral Evaluation
Committee at [email protected]. The
changes that were made in this round of evaluation were initially made by individual faculty,
discussed and recommended by the AAKPE
Doctoral Evaluation Committee, and approved in
the business meeting of the Academy in 2009.
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New Prominent Leader Interview with Roberta Park Now Available
By David Wiggins, AAKPE Historian
I
t was a pleasure to conduct the latest AAKPE
interview with Professor Roberta Park. A
long-time faculty member at the University of
California, Berkeley, and one of the most prominent historians of physical education and sport
in the world, Professor Park discusses a wide
range of topics that should be of great interest
to both AAKPE members and other professionals in kinesiology and physical education. It
is fascinating to hear her talk about her family
and some of her famous colleagues, how she
became involved in the profession, and the
history and future of the field. Always engaging
and thoughtful, Professor Park offers insights
that all of us with a passion and commitment
to kinesiology and physical education should
consider and take seriously.
Find the interview at www.aakpe.org/ShowArticle.cfm?id=84
Roberta Park
America’s National Physical Activity Plan Unveiled in DC
By Daryl Siedentop
O
n May 3, America’s first National Physical
Activity Plan (NPAP) was unveiled in Washington, DC. The NPAP was developed in eight
sectors (Public Health; Education; Non-Profit;
The Built Environment; Media; Healthcare; Business and Industry; and Park, Recreation, Fitness
and Sport). The NPAP process began with the
commissioning of white papers for each sector.
The white papers for each sector focused primarily on a review and distillation of evidence-based
outcomes for that sector. The authors of each sector
were instructed to develop ten recommendations
for their sector. The white papers were published
in the Journal of Physical Activity & Health (Volume
6, Supplement 2, November 2009).
The second step in the process was a two-day
conference in Washington, DC, designed primarily
to examine the white paper recommendations and
create a final set of recommendations. Key leaders
within each sector were invited to participate in
the conference. The results for each sector were
then assigned to a smaller group of representative
professionals to determine the final recommendations and the action items necessary to achieve
the goals embedded in the recommendations.
The recommendations and action items from
each of these smaller groups were forwarded to
the central leadership group for the NPAP, who
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On May 3, America’s first
National Physical Activity
Plan (NPAP) was unveiled
in Washington, DC. For
AAKPE members, the two
key sectors are Education,
and Park, Recreation, Fitness and Sport (PRFS).
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Member News
Mike Sherman (AAKPE Fel-
low #415) will become senior
vice president, provost,
and chief operating officer
at the University of Akron
on June 1, 2010. Sherman
has been a faculty member
for 25 years at The Ohio
State University, where he
Mike Sherman
most recently served as
vice provost for academic planning; prior to
that, he was the inaugural director of the school
of physical activity and educational services.
Most recently, he oversaw initial college-level
strategic planning, helped oversee the $50
million Targeted Investment in Excellence program,
facilitated the Academic Facilities Plan that is a
component of the One University Framework (a
25-, 50-, and 100-year vision of the University)
and helped set the stage for the university’s
emerging global strategies.
ULA is located in the northwestern corner of
Venezuela in the city of Merida. The university
is 215 years old, has 50,000 students, and has
been rated as one of the top universities in the
former Spanish colonies. The donation of the
equipment was very well received by the ULA
administration. Li and Hamill met with the university officials and local media to celebrate the
opening of the laboratory. The donated equipment will certainly enhance the research activity
of the ULA biomechanics group, which is in the
process of setting up a new interdisciplinary
graduate program in biomechanics.
Tom Templin (AAKPE Fellow #472) has been
appointed to the Board of Directors for the American Kinesiology Association.
Templin also reports that the Department
of Health and Kinesiology at Purdue University
will be leaving the College of Liberal Arts and
joining the newly formed College of Health and
Human Sciences. The realignment will create no
changes for the current undergraduate majors
and graduate students in the academic programs
involved. “A college dedicated to health and human
sciences would enhance student opportunities and
promote faculty collaborations aimed at improving health and quality of
life of people,” said Purdue President France A.
Córdova. “The realignment could consolidate
and elevate Purdue’s
reputation in the health
and human sciences.”
Joseph Hamill (AAKPE Fellow #384) visited
the University of the Andes (ULA) in Merida,
Venezuela, on behalf of the International Society
of Biomechanics. He was accompanied by Dr.
Li Li of Louisiana State University. The purpose
of the trip was to help set up a new biomechanics laboratory with equipment donated for this
purpose. In addition, Li and Hamill discussed
future collaborative research projects with both
faculty and students.
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Hamill (far left) and Li (third from left) meet with university officials to celebrate the
establishment of the new biomechanics laboratory.
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Food for Thought for the Annual Meeting
of guidelines to share with members during our
Saturday afternoon Business Meeting. Please
contact me at [email protected] if you would
like to volunteer or learn more about this.
Many, many thanks to the committee members
who have been working very hard to develop an
exciting and meaningful experience for all of us
in Williamsburg. Thank you, the membership, for
allowing me to serve the Academy as its past
president for 2009-2010. I look forward to seeing
all of you in Virginia in October!
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Plans for Annual Meeting Announced
on a different subtheme. Friday’s subtheme is
titled “Priorities in Physical Education: Education/
Skill and/or Health/Fitness.” This is an issue many
school boards, administrators, and teachers are
grappling with, particularly with limited time and
financial resources to allocate to this subject area.
The day will kick off with 30-minute presentations
by leaders in this area, Dr. Cathy Ennis from the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Dr.
Russ Pate from the University of South Carolina,
each of whom will present the best evidence for
Education/Skill and Health/Fitness, respectively.
Subsequent sessions will include shorter, multidisciplinary talks and roundtables that include members
of the community at large who are stakeholders
in this issue. Each session will be followed by at
least 30 minutes for audience participation.
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On Saturday we will focus on “Multicultural
Issues in Physical Activity and Health.” This topic is
critical to any efforts to grow the involvement and
commitment of society to the joys and benefits of
activity; too often, research in this area is not being
utilized optimally when programs are designed
and implemented. To help us pull together the best
kinesiology research and practical expertise, we
will have three main speakers. Each will make a
30-minute presentation on physical activity programming that is designed to attract people in
localities where particular ethnic groups dominate.
One speaker will be Dr. Wendy Frisby from
the University of British Columbia, who will focus
on her work with low-income, immigrant women
in Vancouver. Dr. Deborah Parra-Medina from
the University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio will talk about her communitybased interventions in Latino communities. Our
third speaker will be Dr. Karla Henderson from
North Carolina State University, who will focus on
physical activity programs in African-American
communities. After each presenter there will
be shorter responses, followed by 30 minutes
of discussion open to all. We hope to include
responses from people involved directly in these
programs via Skype hookup.
We are also considering having a few of the
presentations videotaped so we can post them
on the Academy Web site after the conference.
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reviewed them and returned suggestions to each
sector’s leadership group, with this process going
through several iterations.
For AAKPE members, the two key sectors are
Education, and Park, Recreation, Fitness and Sport
(PRFS). The recommendations for the Education
sector focused primarily on two issues. The first
issue was the development of comprehensive
school physical activity programs (binding adequate
time requirements in PE with qualified teachers, daily
recess, classroom activity breaks, health-related
PE for middle and high schools, intramurals and
PA clubs), and the capacity of those programs to
have such a high “fun quotient” that children and
youths develop self-efficacy for physical activity.
The second issue was the development of state
policies supporting these efforts, the creation of
surveillance systems to monitor school compliance with the policies, and adequate funding to
districts to enable these programs.
The PRFS recommendations were defined in
five areas: Proximity and Place Priorities; Program,
Partnership, and Promotion Priorities; People Priorities; Policy Priorities; and Performance Indicators
Priorities. Key issues addressed dealt with access;
connections among settings; personnel and fiscal resources; attention to at-risk children, youth,
and adults; social marketing campaigns; facility
partnerships; staff development for promoting PA;
land use and zoning policies to preserve green
spaces; adequate funding to maintain and expand
local facilities; community planning guidelines;
and methods to evaluate specific PRFS programs.
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Executive Board 2009-2010
President
Senior Member-at-Large
Roberta E. Rikli, PhD
California State University, Fullerton
College of Health and Human Development
Fullerton, CA 92834
Phone: 714-278-3311 Fax: 714-278-3314
E-mail: [email protected]
Joseph Hamill, PhD
University of Massachusetts
Totman Building
Dept. of Kinesiology
Amherst, MA 01003
Phone: 413-545-2245 Fax: 413-545-2906
E-mail: [email protected]
President-Elect
Maureen Weiss, PhD
University of Minnesota
School of Kinesiology
203 A Cooke Hall
1900 University Ave. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55405
Phone: 612-625-4155 Fax: 612-626-7700
E-mail: [email protected]
Junior Member-at-Large
Thomas Templin, PhD
Purdue University
Dept. of Health and Kinesiology
800 West Stadium
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765-496-6720
E-mail: [email protected]
Immediate Past President
Business Manager
Beverly D. Ulrich, PhD
University of Michigan, School of Kinesiology
401 Washtenaw Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2214
Phone: 734-764-5210 Fax: 734-763-6283
E-mail: [email protected]
Kim Scott
Human Kinetics
1607 N. Market Street
Champaign, IL 61825
Phone: 217-351-5076, ext. 2234
E-mail: [email protected]
AAKPE Newsletter
Secretary-Treasurer
Managing Editors: Kim Scott, Amy Rose
Mark Fischman, PhD
Auburn University, Dept. of Kinesiology
Auburn, AL 36849-5323
Phone: 334-844-1465 Fax: 334-844-1467
E-mail: [email protected]
Editor: Kristi Turnbaugh, Designer: Sean Roosevelt
Newsletter Advisors: Joseph Hamill, Tom Templin
Human Kinetics
P.O. Box 5076 Champaign, IL USA 61825-5076
www.HumanKinetics.com
AAKPE May 2010 Volume 31, No. 2